We are having an epidemic of people who don't want to have responsibilities or be grown up. They'd rather pretend to be anything other than themselves. This constant looking to the past, wanting to feel childlike, is why our future is in peril.

exactly. And the family didn't need to use a food bank!

@@auroraheidialis And also wanting a strong-man father figure to take care of them and solve all their problems.

Many did. You just did not hear about it.@@kimbradshaw1480 It was not politicized as it is today.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Soapandwater6or a social safety net paid for by somebody else.

And it seems like it took Trumpy several YEARS to realize that the internet would eventually fact check his lies faster than he can say them. Trump will be found guilty in 2024.

Why doesn`t Haley use her real name.

Such a great point.

also, her parents were paying for her housing, her clothes, and her food.

The uninformed see simplicity and a clean slate where we see blindness

​@@SalmanKhan-vp9jsshe can move to Germany or any Scandinavian country.

@@LA-kg6zd I was there but the reason is USA and Germany is at the same stage of inflation so why she move from USA to another expensive county

@@LA-kg6zd in northern Pakistan we have nature greenery fresh food fresh fruits fresh air hospitable people cheap prices rivers lakes snow capped mountain peaceful environment 😊

True. Livable in that people cannot afford housing.

​@SalmanKhan-vp9js no you don't.

He loved the trump government. Why did the cnn ceo hate the government when trump was in?

because rich people know if government fails, rich people succeed. if government works, rich people cannot blame the government and so they get taxed and poor people do better. poor people hate being poor so they don't want other people to get help because it makes them feel bad getting helped. it is a big contradiction

@@martinvanburen4578 You were doing well until you got into motivations of poor folks. Then you shat the bed.

@@osiris7208 Part of the actual relevance of his age, is that he's old enough to remember the mid 20th century, when wealthy Americans actually paid taxes. Rupert and his American friends didn't like that, and have been enacting their revenge ever since.

The people who want us to hate our government are the ones who want to tear down statues of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to William Penn and say that this country is "stolen land," as if there's any plot of ground on this planet that is currently occupied by the rightful original owners.

Yes💯👍

tRump gave a tax cut to billionaires in 2017-18, and he consider middle class and poor people as losers who he only cares as cannon fodder for his campaigns and political support.

You forgot to say vote against Trump and all republicans who's main goal is always lower taxes for the rich. His only substantive policy is to lower the corporate tax rate AGAIN.

@@taezonday right on

Not true at all. This is a common lie made by those who are typically not inside the country.

We are in a life-and-death struggle between the people and the elites/progressive communists. There is a very real possibility we will have no functioning government to use to make the repairs made in the 1980's.

It's becoming more and more like Brazil. If you're in that fortunate top 5% then life is great. For everyone else it varies somewhere between a struggle to downright impossible. This winner take all mentality is going to lead to social unrest.

@@patrolmanpete No question the benefits are not shared equally. However, it is also without question that the system of free markets, rule of law and individual decisions has benefitted more people to a greater extent than any other ever tried.

@@dabrack9350 I agree with you there. But there is a wide spectrum of ways to apply that approach. Look at Western Europe, the places with the highest quality of life ratings. Specifically the Nordic countries. Neat, clean orderly streets, a high degree of social cohesion, a strong social safety net... yes, they pay high taxes, but they get an awful lot in exchange for it. Meanwhile North America has adopted a "winner take all" mindset where we have one person with a million dollars, nine people with nothing, and analysts try to convince us everything is OK because on average everyone has a hundred grand.

@@patrolmanpete Of course you do understand Europe only works as it does because America carries the load in men, innovation and money that maintains the peace around the world. I also note that while the news is full of real conflicts, since 1945 we have experienced the longest and greatest period of peace the world has ever known.

"in the pink of health" 🤮🤮🤮

Exactly. It’s a bad tool for psyche honestly.

100% it's a poison

No worries... Biden can win any debate against the, "Yellow Monkey's Bottom," and everyone knows it. Trump has no retention of facts or history! All he will do is use the speaking points Hannity writes for him & all the MAGA-GOP-NUT'S huh? This is why Trump has been trying to get dirt Biden's son for the past 6 years huh?

Microwave attention span. We have Andy Warhol and Ted Turner to blame. If CNN had NEVER created the 24hrs news cycle and congress put strict regulations on internet companies, i think we would have been all the better for it.

Just put away gaming and social media. Live your life striving to be better

I heard in North Korea everyone is equal regardless of how hardworking or skilled are you, you don't pay tax either. Food and housing are provided equally by the government.

​@Brad-ih5zh do you have to use one extreme to justify another extreme? Most people discussing this want a mixed market economy that leans capitalistic to take advantage of the benefits of capitalism. While having key regulations and tax policies that prevent the destabilization of late stage capitalism. If you allow it to get to skewed one way or the other to heavily you end up with a backlash. We are skewed to heavily into crony capitalism at the moment. You can fix this allowing for the middle class to be strong and healthy without going full communist.

@@Brad-ih5zh yeah, what we need is another tax cut for the 1% so the wealth will trickle down to us peons.

​@@XYZ-bi9eb Ha! Nice one! 😂

I think the biggest issue is the War in Gaza. A lot of people like me who voted for Biden are deeply disappointed and disturbed that their President is sponsoring a genocide and keeps genuflecting to Israel. That shows Democrats' moral bankruptcy. The grand coalition that Democrats had built, including liberal Whites, African Americans, American Asians and American Muslims is now falling apart. People can now clearly see that both parties serve AIPAC and give only lip service to their other concerns. Economy is not everything. People expect their government to not only look out for their economic interests but also to represent their ideals. Biden certainly has not done that. He is appeasing far-right Zionists in the country and forgetting his base. That's why the base will not turn out to vote for him. Trump can be far worse, but if his second term is going to be similar to his first, I think most people can live with it. At least, I can.

This American agrees with you wholeheartedly.

The value of the stock market and GDP are only measures of how well the very richest in our society are doing.

@@TheRealRobertG That’s not true. American median incomes and median household incomes are the highest in the world. Cost of living in the US relative to incomes is less than any other country in the world. Americans earn the highest salaries in the world and are taxed very low on those salaries. What more do you people want. Utopia? Paradise? Literal heaven on earth?

@@TheRealRobertG Exactly! And often the richest corporations are expanding their profits and their share price at the expense of ordinary Americans.

Hello, are you saved by Christ, yet?

Trump sucks, yes, and Israel has a right to exist and defend itself. Go Israel!

Who said that??

Remember, Joe’s racist remarks about people working in convenience, stores.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome. Court case after court case, all with the same outcome. Any member of the public could have given DJT those verdicts in a month, let alone many many excruciating years. More discriminating evidence from women, decades younger than him being revealed, resulting in further court cases/payouts. Women he should have no chance with, given the age gap. Now in his mid 70’s, he watches as his life drifts away. Yet, he thinks this vicious cycle of court case after court case will see him become president again. The opposition let DJT slip through the net once. This time they will ensure they do everything in their power (without any mercy to outsiders) to make sure all candidates are handpicked from within. The only nice saving grace DJT has is, all the dirty laundry is out in the open, plain for everyone to see!

@@t.r.campbell6585 You russians are weird. You have such a tiny country. Small minds make small places.

Well said. Like you said, some Americans (those who can invest) have benefited greatly whereas the vast majority haven't. For a country that's doing so well the majority of its citizens precariously walk a tightrope every month hoping that an unforeseen event doesn't throw them out of their house.

Exactly - In US, if you are in tech, life is smooth, controllable, else you are figuring out how to scrape the bottom of the barrel for scraps or moving to some far out city to survive the rising housing prices. Remote work and IT is a blessing though if one could re-train himself and he missed the key point that US can print $s its way out of issue after WWII but that is not going to last much longer - i would say a decade

This is the new semi socialist oligarchy Biden put in place.

That stat of 60% not being able to afford a $500 bill comes from an old survey done by a financial service firm which isn't really accurate, the median amount of savings a person has in their checking account is ~$8000.

@@DMAN123223 In August 2023, CNBC reported a recent survey indicating 63% of Americans cannot afford a $500 emergency.

Yet Trump is still better than Biden

Trump, dirty? Imagine my shock. /s

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....and yet the sanctimonious hypocrites willfully ignore the dumpster fire that is the lifetime of grifting by Joey and the Bumblebiden family.

And what about dementia Joe's wrong doings? It would take yrs to uncover all the shady crap he has done with 45yrs of shady doing. Don't get mad at facts.just accept them and put the kool-aid cup down

But we all love Trump 🇺🇸 USA is "Trump Country " or die, please vote for Trump so he can stay in power for ever 🙏

Yes the solution to despair: care more

Yep. Just keep pretending that nearly every major sector of the workforce hasn't gone on strike, been on strike or is about to go on strike because all of us poor people have to be dumb, right??

@@thomascross8339 Why don't you vote republican and have no rights to strike?

What are people going to measure against other than how they are doing? How they feel about it? Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy. The middle class has been shrinking. China surpassed the US in 2015 having 109 million people with a net worth over $100,000 USD to America’s 92 million and shrinking

ок "One state after another will bite off": London systematically takes control of the states from the United States

Unjustified cynicism is stupidity. Economic growth benefits everybody. The large companies are mostly owned by a consortium of pension/mutual funds that regular people are invested in. And most of the ultra-rich individuals' net worth only exists on paper. If you take actual cash into account, the richest people are nowhere near as wealthy as they seem. America is also far from the worst country in the world in terms of income inequality. Thanks to continued economic growth, your standard of living has the potential to increase in the future. I'm from Europe, and although we have a more comfortable work-life balance and better social safety nets, we are trading our future prosperity for our current comfortability, as our productivity has continued to slump since before the 90s. Now our economies are starting to lag behind the rest of the world.

@@JeffPar50 Well it's not difficult to see whether that cynicism is justified or not. Just look at the data. What is the middle class making today adjusted for inflation compared to 20 years ago or 30 years ago. In the 70s it was common for the man of the house to be the bread winner and be able to make enough to support a family. Most families these days have both parents working to make ends meet. Many work multiple jobs and still live paycheck to paycheck. We know the middle class is shrinking and the poverty is increasing. Income inequality is not the worse in the US, there are many third world countries that are much worse. But it is a low bar to set comparing the richest country in the world to under developed countries. And with the going trend we will join the ranks of those third world countries soon enough.

@@JeffPar50 "Economic growth benefits everybody." Not true. In your "example," people with pensions and/or mutual funds benefit. There are very few jobs left that have pensions, they don't pay what they used to, and there are millions of people with no investment portfolio to speak of (it's rather hard to have one when you're living paycheck to paycheck.) "Thanks to continued economic growth, your standard of living has the potential to increase in the future." Not when wage growth isn't keeping up with inflation. And I can't believe you're actually trying to be an apologist for the ultra-wealthy. You're basically saying that it's okay for the rich to take the a disproportionately large share of the spoils of economic growth for doing nothing but having a lot of money, while regular people get scraps despite working harder and being more productive than ever, because hey, things might get a tiny bit better for regular people in the future, even if it's only a tiny fraction of what they should be getting.

EXTREMELY WELL SAID.........You hit the nail on the head........the well-to-do in the media and in upper middle class America are clueless to the suffering of the masses who "do not" get "cost of living increases in their wages to compensate them for the ever increasing prices of everything".........The well to do (like my employer) get more money in their checks than the actual inflation......My job pays the same as 10 years ago; BUT, My employers wages have gone up by %100 percent in 5 years; while mine has stayed the same for 10 years.......I can no longer afford a single solitary thing....... We are "force fed" the great Wall St. numbers.......While we are sinking under the weight of inflation........Yeah!!.....Prices may have stopped increasing ( why would that continue when the filthy rich has raised prices by 50-100-200-300-even 1,000% higher than a few years ago); but merely stopping increases is no help to millions of us who are living on the wages of the 1970's in the outrageously priced present......they will never get it; and they will never raise our wages..........we can all go to hell as far as they are concerned. They are intoxicated with their new wealth that takes us to the cleaners and they will not reverse their pricing; even though they did not even need to raise their prices in the first place........The arrogance and greed of the wealthy is unmatched in this country and they know there is a huge middle class that is compensated for inflation. The millions of us who will end up committing suicide, or end up on the streets are in the minority and of no concern to them........They firmly believe it is our fault that we are not as successful as they are and deserve what we get..........

​@@Hardwaregeekx Mate, the situation in the 50s, 60s, and '70s was an outlier. During that time, the US was by far the most dominant economy the world had ever seen. After WW2, the US represented like 50% of global economic output because the rest of the world was so devastated by the war. In no other country at the time, or since then, has a family lived such a comfortable life on one person's salary. As other countries grew economically, increased consumption in other countries has pushed up prices around the world, which leads to inflation. And foreign competition keeps wages low. You can implement protectionist policies to try to counteract this, but those can lead to problems of their own. The point is, this is not a sign that America is doing poorly, this is just a sign that other countries are industrializing. As I am not American I will not try to lecture you on how you should vote, but maybe what America needs is just better social safety nets? Countries like Sweden and Switzerland have similar levels of wealth inequality as the US, and way more billionaires per capita, but they manage.

when has inequality or housing not been an issue? which party is always the roadblock to these challenges? the republican party. now they want to force parenthood. what do they think the cost of raising additional children without the finances does? that's kitchen table issue, not a government one.

Have been. At the moment, the overall wage growth is outpacing inflation rate.

exactly he cherry picked statistics

@@usmanshahid2219 yup. The past 3 decades years have been amazing for the US economy, as long as you're in the top 1%

What about the mess at the border??

Thanks, Repucklicans!!!!

They split us up into parties so we argue with each other and don't notice them robbing us blind.

100 percent correct. ALL of America's productivity gains, approx. 51 trillion dollars, have gone to the top one percent.

The fact that the working class had not gotten a raise in more than 30 years. All the benefits of productivity gains (automation, computerization, off-shoring) over all those decades went to the TOP, not shared with the working class. How does that trickle down economics work again ???

Not just that, he is looking at the wrong numbers. That economic growth is not trickling down to ordinary Americans.

This sounds crazily similar to typical CCP propaganda in China. Everyone is feeling like crap but the government says everything is going great for China as a whole (compared with almost everyone else).

I believe he was using surveys, not cold hard data

Agreed. A week of getting out of his bubble and away from wealthy coastal areas might help him understand what is going on. The numbers only give you part of the picture.

Fareed is voicing CNN’s corporate opinion to obscure actual reality for the majority of Americans.

Not happening. In terms of real standard of living, most Americans are now worse off, not better off.

Notice you both forgot to mention, our "Golden Era" of the 1980's!

@@bodyloverz30 in my defense, I remember swathes of the 80’s…🫣😃

@@ObakuZenCenter When I was a youngster, most women were stay at home moms, taking care of the household and taking care of the kids. One man was capable of providing for the family, pay the bills, save a little money and buy a home. But they would have you believe things are soooo much better now.

It's actually not true. Hi

The US is still a new country, it needs to weather the current storm, test the mettle of its political system to define itself. It has too many lawyers and I could go on and on, greetings from Poland my NATO friend, yeah i wish we could spend that money on healthcare and schools ( smarter citizens = less issues overall) but the truth of the matter is that one has to be prepared for war to enjoy peace ☮️

They will eventually, remember our way of governing is messy, but I have faith we will get there

Because the Republicans are out of their minds. I am not trying to blame others. But they have changed drastically since Trump was president. And they've become increasingly crazy since. Not the same Republican Party they used to be and it is sad.

Why because the official are pretty much bought and paid for, Supreme Court paid for The rich on the airways what else can I say? Greed and corruption abound

Anyone who thinks joining NATO is a good idea just ask the families of the half million dead Ukrainian men . An entire population of Ukrainian men gone . Why because for over 20 years Russia warned if NATO expanded to Ukraines border it would be a red line . I thought leftists were against war ?

I'm not a Trump lover or hater. Agree with many things he has said. But your right, he is going to borrow and spend on the MIC and CIA and the never ending wars. #34 Trillion in debt, with little to show for it.......

So inflation is a consequence of economic growth. The fact our economy is healthy is what is driving inflation. Healthier than it has any business being. Here is an interesting fact. 1.3% of the 3.0% inflation rate is a direct consequence of trade tarrifs. The great irony is - is all the elite bashing people like to engage in without thinking, is actually just a vector for people to push for dumb ideas like Tarriffs, Tarrifs which are directly causing a good chunk of the inflation we are now suffering from. The normies were right - free trade was good. Our economy is so strong however, that even with inflation due to idiotic self-destructive trade policy, we are still outperforming the world. Our economy is so balanced right now, that even political incompetence isn't enough to stop it.

Absolutely wrong. Median wages have kept pace with mean wages . Closely on the heels of 75K USD

I don't see an issue with income inequality. I see anyone with hard work and /or smarts making it in this country.

@@rupinderkaur4344 It doesn't matter. Greedflation has eaten up any wage rises, which is why there are now record numbers of homeless, millions regularly go hungry and most in the US cannot afford a $1000 emergency, or proper healthcare. Stop being so gullible and wake up.

@@RajDeelish You're not even in the US. If you were, you'd know that what you just said was debunked as a myth decades ago.

@@ObakuZenCenter because much of social security dole out is allocated to the service of older Americans who are likely to also retire richer. Food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid are some of the biggest schemes of the USA and very inefficient

Well said!

Indeed!

Very true, look at median adult wealth by country and average adult wealth. You will see my country Australia is about the same for average wealth, US a bit higher I think but median wealth Australians are more than double that of our US counterparts.

budget.house.gov/press-release/fact-check-biden-misleads-on-job-creation-statistics

Not true. Unions are growing. Wages are rising. Didn’t he say that manufacturing jobs were rising ? The problem is political partisanship.

And the adoration for guns, too.

I guess it all depends on where you go. Never had such concerns in the USA myself.

@allannieisen1546 -- That is not what this video is saying -- GDP is grwoing - ALL IS WELL and Kicking is the message

Cloward Piven

Stay out of the trailer parks and you'll be fine.

Was being at school an easier time in 1974? Kids these days are inundated by useless information, so much so that they don’t have free time to take up and practise hobbies. Boys are playing video games incessantly and the guitar makers have gone bust.

@@rustshoo5068 Right, ok, that's one particular aspect of society. And so your point is?

@@rustshoo5068 so ... america is fucked because boys play to many video games? Ya know what a worse world is? One where video games don't exist, IE trillions of dollars of wealth, millions of jobs, and an amazing artistic medium for the expression of new ideas. Video Games is a sign of a healthy culture , one that respects and cherishes the arts and artists. It's just a new form of art, and people born in the 1950s don't get it. The same way people born in 1920s thought rock music was corrupting. But the important point here is that's not a complaint about the economy. That's a complaint about some aspect of society that you find annoying, and your filtering it through an economic lens. Change is inevitable. It's scary, weird and confusing. Which is really what's happening. People are weirded out by all the change. We can talk about it. Not all change is good. But that doesn't mean the economy isn't working. It is. We got data.

Yep, Putin loves fox and the uneducated, almost as much as Send More Money Trump does.

Why are the USA so happy to give tax breaks to the rich? Reagan back in the day propagated 'trickle down' economics, *give money to the rich because they create jobs for the people* LOL

Indeed - the middle class said no to social democracy of any kind, instead betting they would be rich soon. Winner take all is the game - they lost.

Agree, but I’m guessing that a change in spending habits have a big role in this. Credit card debt, new cars and monthly subscriptions have become the norm. We spend money that we don’t have.

Excellent analysis. Thank you.

Dear Clinton News Network and its idiotic viewers, for the love of God get your information from independent journalists. The rest of us have been telling you the end of the American century is at hand for decades. Now Biden and his service to the Pentagon's rabid imperialism and warmongering has only served to accelerate it. For those of you that think you're gonna vote your way out of the collapse of the US empire, think again. It's already over.

Kids can't go to school without fear of being shot! Quality of life is not improving. He's quoting trickle-down economic numbers which is a debunked economic theory.

Hello, are you saved by Christ, yet?

The hollowing out of the middle class is a direct result of Repucklican politics and economics over the last 50 years. Yep, it's great to see how "trickle down" policies have worked for most Americans over the last four decades...!!!

yeah, people really have to stop calling america a power house. thats just completely untrue.

@@slicksterprickster2076 If there was something presented here as factual that you can demonstrate is not, kindly do so.

You are delusional

Like this is right out of the Biden administration's playbook. They see that many Americans aren't happy and then throw statistics in their face about how amazing the economy is. It's like telling someone in a region of drought that 70 percent of the globe is water. It's 100 percent true... but it really doesn't address that person's drought concerns.

This is why people can’t stand the professional managerial class. All of you who get just enough security to say to the lower classes, screw you whiners! We are doing great! You lazy do nothings (lies btw) have it all in your head. You stand between us and making any real progress in this world because you wanna keep your pie, nice and safe and screw the rest of us. Don’t look to be respected. Don’t look for that.

@@kmick8108 his data is not wrong but it is extremely narrowly selected

@@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf What else should he have looked at?

Let’s start working harder then. I’m first generation American. Parents from Mexico. I’m making over 220k a year and my fiancé is around 115k. Also first gen. We are both 31. By 40 I’ll be a millionaire. I’ve been looking into the race horse industry and we saved up 110k to buy 3 race horses that we have been eyeing for 1 year. Let’s get up and start working hard. It’s America buddy

@@villarreal6 Es bueno oir eso. Háblame después de que tu familia tenga una tragedia. Háblame después de haber tenido que pagar un deducible de más de $10,000... Sólo un viaje en ambulancia puede arruinar a muchas personas en los EE. UU.... Los viajes en ambulancia son gratuitos en México... Probablemente soy mayor que tú. Me encantaría hablar contigo dentro de 10 años... El orgullo viene antes que la destrucción. Y Biden no te ayudará.

@@brianhoran6858 compa no we precupe de trajedias y dinero. El ano nuevo gastamos 32,000 dollares en un grupo Norte no de Mexico “Los canelos de Durango” mi tio de murio en el 2020 y Gastamos 90,000 en solamente su tumba. Los Estados unidos cresimos 4.2 porciento in our economy. More than any other countrie combined under biden.

@@villarreal6 great make-believe story. Very believable.

@@doctorx1924 at least I’m giving ideas

Fareed is a master data cherry picker for fake news ZNN.

Agreed, and in the UK they say that if London was not part of the UK economy, it would be as wealthy as somewhere like Mississippi. There are huge swathes that are being ignored and not getting the investment they need to get growing again.

THAT JUST A LIE THERE ARE MANY WEALTHY suburbs in these so called fly over states just look at edmond oklahoma i don t even talk about jackson wyoming there are many more afluents places than just the two coastals areas

The small town I was born in (in the south) used to have a lot of small industry, a busy down town. Now they are all gone......

!!!!

Thank you... the elites like Fareed are obvious/don't give a s#it.

@ed-gn6ki -- 34 trillion debt requires open Debt ceiling now. for any country inflation is major problem to be contained with the country itself -- BUT your country can export inflation to other countries due to global reserve currency status

It is ronical that the people who spurred the creation of ICJ in 1948 & the whole world swore "never again" are the same people being accused of committing genocide against Palestinians. This is a watershed moment that should enrage the world and hold the US & Israel accountable.

THIS. thanks for posting. couldn't agree more.

$34 Trillion in debt. Nearly all of it going to the Bankers, Wall Street, and the MIC. The culture wars are a creation of the MSM, to divide us, distract us, while the scam continues....

You are not alone! Millions are with you. Including me.

How is that open border, cost of everything double & triple, 2 wars, etc etc working out for you?

Muricans for a change. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. 🙂

@@mhall801OK, you named important issues. I’m not a Biden fan but CULT45? We need better candidates. Remember Helsinki? Trump remains Putin’s bitch…

Not our wars, Like the last 2 decades. @@mhall801

I could say the same about DEI. What does that actually improve, and for who?

Here in Europe, the notion of going bankrupt due to health care, is an unknown concept. It doesn't happen here.

@@monacophotographyevents2384 I look forward to a day when it is an unknown concept here as well. But as long as people are still able to make money off of human suffering and need, I don't see it happening. This country is run on greed and profit margins, not on human dignity or compassion

Not true. The data does not show that. If you ask Americans how they feel about their own personal circumstances, they feel pretty good about that. If you ask Americans how they think everyone else is doing, they say they are fucked. There is a clear disconnect here. America is outperforming it's competitors in every possible dimension. If America is struggling - then the world must be a radioactive wasteland. Neither of those things are true.

yes, true. housing and income inequality are a decades long problem that persist. things like child tax credits were hugely popular and helped with poverty. they were shutdown.

Many of those inequalities would be better handled if American oligarchs and companies were fairly taxed.

@@persuasivebarrier2419 maybe another dose of trickle-down economics will finally make them learn it doesn't work? 😣 I really don't get the people that are unhappy with the results of that waiving the banner of the party that lauds it as the only solution.

@@dreamcoyotetrickle down economics is about lowering taxes so that corporations can invest in innovating new products to make old products cheaper and more affordable to the general public. It’s also about innovating new farm equipment to make food cheaper etc. The cellphone you’re using right now to complain about trickle down economics would’ve cost you 4000$ 40 years ago, now you can afford a cellphone computer hybrid while working at Starbucks. That’s what trickle down economics is. It’s not rich people giving poor people money.. that’s just silly.

@@tyc6268 Trickle down economics results in really rich upper management and investors in the US and provides jobs in China and third world countries. It causes massive income inequality which, eventually leads to less stability. It kills the middle class, which reduces the money consumers have, which FUBARs the top %1 but they are already rich. It worked, just not for the bulk of people who get a crappy shovel for $10 that breaks almost immediately but provides a job for someone in China.

You mean the Foxed🖕Up media will always predict the possibility that things might turn negative unless President Orange Jesus is controlling everything

The worst is FOX “News”. No network comes close to spreading fear & hate…

There's the real plagiarist and Zionist plant.

The haves and the have nots.....it is getting wider and wider.....

$34 Trillion in debt, nearly ALL of it went to the MIC (never ending wars), Wall Street, and the Bankers (bail outs). The working class got no raise for more than 3 decades. All the benefits of productivity improvements went to the TOP. Until Covid. They sent checks to the people. Now we have inflation, that must be stopped..... How's that trickle down economics working...... wait for it..

We already have the chaos and lunatics. Vote for President Trump, get the adults back in.

@@mdmarko Not a chance.

​@@mdmarko'chaos and lunatics'..please elaborate? How's Trump going, you know, with all those cases against him? The rabble and the questionable, that is the current day Republican Party, hey? It's a bloody mess.

@@mdmarkoCULT45 should not control GOP. It’s sad

He didn't miss that. Actually by the very data he sites, growth is in the lower teirs of the economy - with unskilled labor getting wage increases in the 20% range over the last decade.

The problem is we're still not seeing that in the grocery stores and Walmarts because of price gouging. We're still not making enough money to battle inflation.

How is leaving the border wide open and allowing millions of illegal aliens into the country any sort of accomplishment? Vote for President Trump, he'll close the borders and send the illegals back.

Biden is destroying America. And you make excuses for him. How’s that 11+ million illegals from every country in the world invading America through bidens open border working out for you? How many Hamas sleeper cells you think biden let into America?

@@OneMxnbrxnd I do not doubt you for a moment. I have friends in Australia and the UK who I speak with regularly and who tells me price gouging is out of control in those countries too. The Thieves of the business world are everywhere.

Now imagine you lived fifty years ago, when things were much, much worse.

⁠@@timogul50 years ago things were much worse? Please elaborate

Hello, are you saved by Jesus, yet?

Your paranoia needs to be treated.

@@TheRealRobertG Well, there were fewer US home owners, far more people dying of diseases that we can now prevent, few fewer college graduates, and that not even adding the Cold War into things.

Yep, the solution is to vote in more Repucklicans...NOT!!!

So they should vote against Trump and Republicans who certainly want siphon money to the rich as always. Trump wants to lower the corporate tax rate even further.

And TDrumph is supposed to be able to fix this, as fifty percent of these delusional vacuum heads believe...??? TDrumph only cares for himself. If anyone think he cares about you or your needs and wishes, you are sadly and dangerously mistaken. He wouldn't piss in your mouth if your teeth were on fire!!!!!

Any media or network is represented by several individuals that don't all say the same thing.... But you're not wrong that a lot of pundits from a lot of networks, as well as a number of economists, did think the U.S. was heading for a recession in the last couple of years. The fact that we haven't, in spite of these fears, would seem to be a good sign for the country, at least on the macro-economic front.

budget.house.gov/press-release/fact-check-biden-misleads-on-job-creation-statistics

Uhh.. that's because you click on them.

Guy lives in a bubble and doesn’t even know it. Go touch grass.

Immature of course but also the old and senile. I'm tired of seeing videos of politicians that have no term limits speaking about nonsense. We need age limits and term limits.

budget.house.gov/press-release/fact-check-biden-misleads-on-job-creation-statistics

united states exports war and terror - f@#k off !!!

Our economy was based on slave labor back then, which benefitted the North and South alike. Now it's based on neocapitalism which does not pay a living wage to the masses, and the unemployed/underemployed are Truly Screwed!!! American Exceptionalism was for the white land-owning upper classes, and it actually WAS POSSIBLE in earlier history to get ahead by grit. Fareed completely overlooks the plight of the masses by focusing on his numbers. You haven't been anywhere near the poor side of town, the other side of the tracks, or in vast rural regions of destitution...

@@5kids1goldfish I agree with many of your comments, but allow me to respond and clarify a few points. Fareed didn’t so much overlook or minimize the plight of the masses, it’s just that he wasn’t addressing that issue, instead choosing to focus on the the better position of the US economically in a macro sense relative to our allies in the West and our chief rivals. Internally, the US desperately needs to address inequities in income, wealth, access to quality education, and healthcare. We’ve done this before in the early 20th Century when the early Progressives pushed and largely enacted the Square Deal/New Deal reforms to improve working conditions, end child labor, change tax laws, and introduce direct democracy measures: propositions, initiatives and election recalls of government officials. It’s this ability for the United States to reform internally (albeit far too slowly) within the confines of our Constitution and without the need for violent revolution that I mean when I refer to American Exceptionalism. No other country has such mechanisms and potential for reform. Obviously a major exception to this is our Civil War over slavery, but even there we came back together and rededicated the nation to our founding ideals. We struggle still to achieve this, but we haven’t (most of us anyway) abandoned those ideals. You are 100% correct in pointing out that capitalism must continue to be reformed so that all citizens have a chance to earn a living wage and have adequate healthcare. The efforts from Reagan on to break the labor unions and outsource jobs to low wage counties has hurt the middle class and screwed the masses. I sense the tide is turning here in a positive direction, but the challenges are huge. Finally don’t assume you know where I live or my experiences with poverty from a single YT comment. I was simply pleased to see Fareed make a case to Americans that this country has a bright future. Many voters in this election year seem to see America as doomed when the opposite is true. They need to be choosing candidates who are hopeful, positive, and future oriented, not candidates who are angry, vengeful and backward looking.

@markcardinal3004 As for our country's ability to reform internally without resorting to violence-- the masses in poverty are already in living conditions that constitute violence. The fact that soul-crushing conditions were addressed in the past, about a century ago, does not excuse the way the people in government since then revoked the measures which protected the vulnerable. I am shocked that maternal death rates (which went down in every other industrialized country) have climbed higher and higher in the USA for most of the past two decades, when the CDC insists most maternal deaths are preventable. Planning to not have children used to be an unpopular idea that few people expressed out loud, and now it is a common refrain because young couples believe it is unaffordable and risky to birth and raise children. Fareed is so upbeat, he sounds disconnected to the lives of the masses to me. I don't have to live out of my car any more when I have to travel too far to work, unable to drive home at night, but I haven't got an ounce of your optimism. Not at all. And we have not avoided violence. Just look at our maternity system, our schools, our unaffordable food markets (in neighborhoods that have food markets-- not all do). Not having access to vegetables is a form of violence when our bodies need vegetables to be healthy. Chemical additives to food products disrupting health are forms of violence. We are not capable of addressing our problems without resorting to violence because we are already mired in violence. We have policies which knowingly inflict destitution upon our population, so it is intentional. For me, you and Fareed sound like you are talking about another planet, not the America I walk in.

@markcardinal3004 Fareed is a very smart guy, and you sound like you know an awful lot about our history-- but there are a lot of us who find daily survival a brutal affair, juggling debt and watching the cost of Ramen Noodles rise with dismay. I do not relate to the rosy view of the future. Democrats and Republicans alike have allowed this nation to turn into an oligarchy, and so many people are disillusioned enough to be clamoring in the direction of outright fascism, thinking a StrongMan will solve the problems. Why is that pain not more visible or influential to the people who could make a difference? If it all comes tumbling down around the "comfortable" I will just say,"Welcome to what's been inflicted upon the rest of us for too long."

The critical phrase being post covid.Americas inflation stats are the best of all industrialized countries.

@@davidguelette7036 very true but still hard for many here and they don’t understand the global picture.

no its not. @@davidguelette7036

They aren't seeing that. By self-report Americans report their own circumstances to be better than they were 5 years ago. They are seeing lots of negative news and people complaining however. But all those complaints are abstract complaints about complex issues they don't even understand but hear about on TV. There is a disconnect between data and feelings - it's real, and I can demonstrate it. High GDP does in fact mean more money for you - and that is also reflected in the data, and by Americans themselves reporting on their own circumstances. THe hard part people don't get is these numbers are just averages - so long as more people are better off than they were 5 years ago, the economy is working correctly. That is in fact true - despite the real problems.

Thanks to Mr Reagan. His decision to ignore anti-trust laws got the ball rolling.

You are funny. Take a good look at Black Rock and State Street and who they own in the political spectrum. People know so little...

The problem is not just the GOP it's also the Democrats. The Democrats are also owned by the rich elites just like the GOP is.

So all obscenely rich are bad Republicans, all average Americans are good honest Dems supporters?

They can but refuse! They would rather listen to what their cult leaders on Fox and social media say!

Blind - the wool has been pulled down on you by none other than Cnn.

This guy isnt very bright. There's a very clear contrast between Trumps presidency and Bidens. Under Trump prices were half what they are now. The world was at the closest thing to world peace that we have seen in our lifetimes. Boys and girls were gendered by what was between their legs. Now compare that to Biden. Prices are double what they were 3 years ago, the world is on the brink of "Armageddon"

We've yet to see the good old days.

I hear ya but ya know inflation was much worse in the 70's...interest rates in the late 70's to buy a home were around 18%....also, there was a point in the 70's when you couldn't buy gas everyday...only every other day based on your license plate...fights breaking out at gas stations, people stealing gas out of your car with a suction hose...yeah, now that's bad!

@@jamesrgoes I was born in 1968 and barely remember some of that. I grew up very poor in the projects near Detroit. I was able to get out and up but it now feels like it's creeping up behind me if that makes sense

Cloward Piven

This guy isnt very bright. There's a very clear contrast between Trumps presidency and Bidens. Under Trump prices were half what they are now. The world was at the closest thing to world peace that we have seen in our lifetimes. Boys and girls were gendered by what was between their legs. Now compare that to Biden. Prices are double what they were 3 years ago, the world is on the brink of "Armageddon"

He has a take for everything except what is going on in Gaza. I guess he does not want to end up like Mehdi Hassan.

please. you believe that? take a better look at america, the dumpsterfire....they have no economy. just the lies posted on here my friend. do not believe this.

Fareed is in denial about the vast numbers of us living in poverty. When we work full time, we're still going deeper into debt because we cannot earn enough for the basic costs of living. I know others like myself who lost work income because an aging parent needed someone to stay with them and help them-- but my work was not earning enough anyway. It's IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!

How can you even think that? Slow death? Fucknoutta here

He has a take for everything except what is going on in Gaza. I guess he does not want to end up like Mehdi Hassan.

@@Finalboss619 What’s happening in Gaza is that terrorists tried to invade Israel and now the people of Gaza are paying the ultimate price for that attack. What did they think was going to happen when they attacked a country 100 times more powerful than them? Did they think Israel was just going to be like “no problem guys, you just killed thousands of civilians and kidnapped hundreds in a surprise terrorist attack. But no problem, live and forgive. We won’t respond to your attack.” The whole reason Hamas even attacked Israel is because they wanted to prevent the Saudi deal in which the US would provide Saudi Arabia with a Nato level security guarantee in exchange for Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel and normalizing relations with Israel. Hamas was just mad and salty they were losing support from Arab nations. Many Arab countries have already recognized Israel over the last several decades, and Saudi Arabia would have been the domino that would have caused the entire Arab world to recognize Israel